Teach your students about the issues that will shape their future! 5 lessons ideal to teach as part of any ICT ethics lesson, to begin or end an ICT module or as part of a wider social sciences/science study of future issues such as privacy, individual rights, cyber security, business, and economics. Aimed at High School students (11-18 years old) The topics are: Covid19 Track and Trace Blockchain Facial Recognition SpaceX Quantum Computing Each lessons contains, as a minimum: Numeracy and literacy challenge Context setting Link to bespoke teacher tutorial on the lesson. Visual explainers Activity challenges with stretch tasks Online Google Quiz to test understanding. Hope they help! Wolsey. You can access and download all the lessons for IGCSE Business Studies at Wolsey Academy (Google us). Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

A resource designed to help out teaching English. Higher order thinking questions for reading texts. A range of questions to engage students with higher level thinking and questioning – beyond the usual ‘explain this more’ feedback, this can be a really useful guide to build higher level analysis. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

5 History Quizzes with PowerPoints (and an extension literacy task for each one). UK Prime Ministers (up 20 2016!) British Monarch Quiz US Presidents Quiz Tudors and Stewarts Quiz Historical Leaders Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

6 Sports Quizzes with PowerPoints (and an extension literacy task for each one). World Cup Qatar 2022 World Cup Russia 2022 Cricket World Cup 2019 Tennis Championships English Premier League English Championship (football/soccer) Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

The fur trade was a significant economic and cultural exchange between European colonizers and Native American tribes in North America. In this lesson, students will learn about the history of the fur trade, the impact it had on Native American societies, the role of fur traders, and the lasting effects on the environment and American culture. In this lesson, students will… Study the context of the topic Sort a timeline of the events into the correct order. Watch a video and answer questions on the content. Study real (and some fictional) quotes from the people involved and discuss what they reveal about the past. Categorise factors that led to, or shaped, the past. Prioritize those factors during group work. Agree on a grading matrix for answering a written question. Read an example answer and look for what went well and even better if. Try writing your own answer to the topic question. This is a lesson in a large series of American History lessons created by Wolsey Academy. Each lesson has been taught to high-school students successfully for a number of years. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.

This is one lesson from a series of 7 lessons that focus on the Space Race, From Sputnik to Apollo. Each lesson is fully resourced with anything that needs printing at the end of the PowerPoint ready in a print friendly format. The idea of this series of lessons is to introduce students to key historical skills using content they are familiar with and find engaging. We have had huge success with these lessons at Wolsey Academy with students often demanding that we teach more of them. The work produced from these lessons has also been exceptional, with the main activity in each lesson being scaffolded and supported in a number of ways. For details of each lesson please see below. If purchasing just one lesson, make sure you have seen the details for that one below. In the lesson preview you will see the lesson structure in the road map slide. We hope it helps. The 7 lessons: Sputnik 1957 Yuri Gagarin Project Mercury Earthrise Apollo 8 Apollo 11 Apollo Conspiracies Debunked Cold War Space Race Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

This is one lesson from a series of 7 lessons that focus on the Space Race, From Sputnik to Apollo. Each lesson is fully resourced with anything that needs printing at the end of the PowerPoint ready in a print friendly format. The idea of this series of lessons is to introduce students to key historical skills using content they are familiar with and find engaging. We have had huge success with these lessons at Wolsey Academy with students often demanding that we teach more of them. The work produced from these lessons has also been exceptional, with the main activity in each lesson being scaffolded and supported in a number of ways. For details of each lesson please see below. If purchasing just one lesson, make sure you have seen the details for that one below. In the lesson preview you will see the lesson structure in the road map slide. We hope it helps. The 7 lessons: Sputnik 1957 Yuri Gagarin Project Mercury Earthrise Apollo 8 Apollo 11 Apollo Conspiracies Debunked Cold War Space Race Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Gives an overview of Elizabeth I at the start of her reign, her strengths and weaknesses. Lesson flow is as follows: Complete a ‘what do you know now and then’ task A reading comprehension task Summarise the most important aspects of today’s learning Categorise the main factors Use the grading criteria to assess two example answers. Write your own answer using as many of today’s key words as possible. Return to the first task and add in the new knowledge you have learned. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

A Guided Reading Task from the set of 16 ‘Computer Science’ Guided Reading challenges used by Wolsey Academy. Each task involves reading an extract from a piece of computer science scholarship, creating a sub title for each paragraph and noting key points. It ends with a summarisation task. It allows students to engage with high end literature and developing not just their reading skills and subject specific vocabulary but engages them in contemporary issues and controversies. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. The 16 are as follows: GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma. Hidden Figures – The African American women that contributed to the NASA Apollo program. Moore’s Law – the scientist who helped developed the microchip and his (prescient) prediction on their future development. Idea’s Man – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, on the impact of Windows Game Over – the development and origins of the Game Boy Society & The Internet – Positive and Negative Impacts The Blockchain Future – A look at the impact of blockchain Covid19 – A look at how technology and tracking apps helped (or hindered) in the fight against Covid19 Computing with Quantum Cats – An exploration of the nature of quantum computing SpaceX Starship – how space x are using computing to bring down the price of space travel Facial Reognition – how this technology promises to transform the world, for the better and for the worse. The Digital Divide – a deep study into the two tier world digitisation has created Artificial Intelligence – Wired’s top science writer gives an overview of the impact of AI The Metaverse – Billions are being poured into this technology by the Tech Giants – but what is it? They Tell Me This Is How The World Ends – Financial Times Book the Year 2021 – the threat posed by hacking and cyberthreats. Chip War – Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 – How microchips are at the centre of a new fight for superpower dominance Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope it helps.

A Guided Reading Task from the set of 16 ‘Computer Science’ Guided Reading challenges used by Wolsey Academy. Each task involves reading an extract from a piece of computer science scholarship, creating a sub title for each paragraph and noting key points. It ends with a summarisation task. It allows students to engage with high end literature and developing not just their reading skills and subject specific vocabulary but engages them in contemporary issues and controversies. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. The 16 are as follows: GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma. Hidden Figures – The African American women that contributed to the NASA Apollo program. Moore’s Law – the scientist who helped developed the microchip and his (prescient) prediction on their future development. Idea’s Man – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, on the impact of Windows Game Over – the development and origins of the Game Boy Society & The Internet – Positive and Negative Impacts The Blockchain Future – A look at the impact of blockchain Covid19 – A look at how technology and tracking apps helped (or hindered) in the fight against Covid19 Computing with Quantum Cats – An exploration of the nature of quantum computing SpaceX Starship – how space x are using computing to bring down the price of space travel Facial Reognition – how this technology promises to transform the world, for the better and for the worse. The Digital Divide – a deep study into the two tier world digitisation has created Artificial Intelligence – Wired’s top science writer gives an overview of the impact of AI The Metaverse – Billions are being poured into this technology by the Tech Giants – but what is it? They Tell Me This Is How The World Ends – Financial Times Book the Year 2021 – the threat posed by hacking and cyberthreats. Chip War – Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 – How microchips are at the centre of a new fight for superpower dominance Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope it helps.

A Guided Reading Task from the set of 16 ‘Computer Science’ Guided Reading challenges used by Wolsey Academy. Each task involves reading an extract from a piece of computer science scholarship, creating a sub title for each paragraph and noting key points. It ends with a summarisation task. It allows students to engage with high end literature and developing not just their reading skills and subject specific vocabulary but engages them in contemporary issues and controversies. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. The 16 are as follows: GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma. Hidden Figures – The African American women that contributed to the NASA Apollo program. Moore’s Law – the scientist who helped developed the microchip and his (prescient) prediction on their future development. Idea’s Man – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, on the impact of Windows Game Over – the development and origins of the Game Boy Society & The Internet – Positive and Negative Impacts The Blockchain Future – A look at the impact of blockchain Covid19 – A look at how technology and tracking apps helped (or hindered) in the fight against Covid19 Computing with Quantum Cats – An exploration of the nature of quantum computing SpaceX Starship – how space x are using computing to bring down the price of space travel Facial Reognition – how this technology promises to transform the world, for the better and for the worse. The Digital Divide – a deep study into the two tier world digitisation has created Artificial Intelligence – Wired’s top science writer gives an overview of the impact of AI The Metaverse – Billions are being poured into this technology by the Tech Giants – but what is it? They Tell Me This Is How The World Ends – Financial Times Book the Year 2021 – the threat posed by hacking and cyberthreats. Chip War – Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 – How microchips are at the centre of a new fight for superpower dominance Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope it helps.

Made this lesson before the referendum - have used it a number of times since, it works incredibly well - including once as an observation lesson which received great feedback. Differentiated tasks throughout with there being three options for the main activity for three different grouped levels. Ends with a class vote. Actual 2016 Vote Leave and Stronger In literature used for higher levels as a comparison between the two events (Reformation v Referendum). 1. Leave/Remain card sort starter. 2. Differentiated group & solo tasks leading to an essay Lower: Structured development of card sort arguments. Middle: Structured use of card sort arguments to make a facto file (with templates and examples) Higher: Leave & Remain 2016 literature to use to compare to a new set of higher level card sort arguments - leading to written essay tasks with stretch vocabulary sheets. 3. Class referendum and debate. 4. Video plenary - spot the arguments you’ve made. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science). All are available at Wolsey Academy. Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract. The extracts are as follows: Year 7: Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article) Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article) Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article) Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel Year 8: Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article) Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis, Year 9: Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought. KS4: Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin. Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities. Hope it helps.

This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science). All are available at Wolsey Academy. Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract. The extracts are as follows: Year 7: Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article) Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article) Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article) Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel Year 8: Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article) Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis, Year 9: Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought. KS4: Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin. Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs Download them all at once at WolseyAcacdemy~com Wolsey Academy is a non-profit, with every penny we make from the sale of resources going to one of our charity partners (Detailed at our website) If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities. Hope it helps.

5 Activity Booklets that allow students to work through the excellent History Free Roam RPG games found at wolseyacademy historyworlds. This innovative games that allow students to walk the streets of historical periods, talking to characters from the time while completing activity booklets that build on/prepare them for their lessons have proven extremely popular. The five games are: 1066 Battle of Hastings and Norman Invasion Thomas Becket King John Medieval Life Black Death Wolsey Academy’s mission is to share great resources to improve teaching and engagement. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope they help.

This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science). All are available at Wolsey Academy. Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract. The extracts are as follows: Year 7: Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article) Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article) Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article) Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel Year 8: Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article) Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis, Year 9: Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought. KS4: Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin. Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities. Hope it helps.

Lesson activity templates (200+ slides) History, Geography, Computer Science, Business Studies, English. I started teaching 12 years ago and in my PGCE year I made a ppt file (modestly) called ‘Master Plan’. In there I collected every lesson activity that I could so I could save time by recycling slide templates but also it proved to be a great reservoir of ideas if I was ever stuck for a lesson. And so here it is, hopefully others can benefit too. They’re divided up into Starters, Development, Plenary and Resources – but they can all be mixed, matched and edited to your needs! I’ve taught History, Geography, Computer Science, Business Studies and English during the last 12 years (Jack of all trades, master of none…) so the templates come filled in with a wide range of existing information/activities but the idea is not to use these slides in your lessons directly – but just like I’ve done, use them for inspiration and quick editing. If you’re on the hunt for high quality lessons in the subjects mentioned above please visit Wolsey Academy for more! Hope it helps.

A quick summary of the fantastic book ‘Doing Middle Leadership Right’ by Bawden, Hickin and Macis-Riley. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Includes a diamond 9 activity to get students engaged (and arguing) over who has the most power. Moves on to a discussion of the origins of the American system of ‘checks and balances’ and takes that argument forward through history, looking at things like Nixon and Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ to see where and when Presidential power has been curtailed. Ends with a comparison of the ‘China model’ and a discussion of the pros and cons of the US system in the modern world. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Teach your students about the issues that will shape their future! 5 lessons ideal to teach as part of any ICT ethics lesson, to begin or end an ICT module or as part of a wider social sciences/science study of future issues such as privacy, individual rights, cyber security, business, and economics. Aimed at High School students (11-18 years old) The topics are: Covid19 Track and Trace Blockchain Facial Recognition SpaceX Quantum Computing Each lessons contains, as a minimum: Numeracy and literacy challenge Context setting Link to bespoke teacher tutorial on the lesson. Visual explainers Activity challenges with stretch tasks Online Google Quiz to test understanding. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.